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3 juillet 2017
- handle: 10670/1.03dme8
- isbn: 9782875582355
- eisbn: 9782875585370
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Christoph Jahr, « War, Discipline, and Politics », Presses universitaires de Louvain, ID : 10670/1.03dme8
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At the end of May 1918, Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, commander-in-chief of an army group, intimated in his diary the suspicion that many soldiers committed crimes solely to avoid the front. He looked with envy at the other side: ‘The English are much stricter in such cases than we are and generally punish absence without leave by death’. It is certainly true that in proportion to its size, ten times as many death sentences were carried out in the British army between 1914 and 1918 as in...